NEWS + REVIEWS
NEW & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
TULE REVIEW: forthcoming 2024: "Playground" and "Current Climate"
PLUME POETRY:May 2023: "Spoiler Alert" https://plumepoetry.com/spoiler-alert/
THE WALRUS: January 2023: "Acacia"
THE MacGUFFIN: Spring 2023: "Orchard"
VOX POPULI:October, 2022:"The Last Two Jews of Kabul"
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2022/10/03/julie-bruck-the-last-two-jews-of-kabul/
PLUME POETRY: October, 2021: "Mr.Palomar's Wave"
https://plumepoetry.com/mr-palomars-wave/
VOX POPULI: November 2020: "The Latest Dictator"
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2020/11/16/julie-bruck-the-latest-dictator/
Thanks to VP for giving fresh relevance to an earlier poem!
THE SOUTHAMPTON REVIEW: Winter/Spring, 2019: "Eleven" and "Warehouse Store"
https://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/
PREVIOUS REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS:
NEWS FOR HOW TO AVOID HUGE SHIPS:
—Finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award
—Longlisted for The Raymond Souster Prize
—Washington Independent Review of Books, Best Books of October
—Poems from Huge Ships featured in Best American Poetry's blog, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, and Best Canadian Poetry
THE FIDDLEHEAD, June 2019
Dual review by Brian Bartlett of "How to Avoid Huge Ships" and Deanna Young's "Reunion".
https://www.brickbooks.ca/reviews/blessings-on-those-who-stepped-forward-then/
BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2019 (Biblioasis): "After Lorne" has been selected by Rob Taylor from its initial appearance in The Malahat Review. BCP's annual anthology is forthcoming in the fall of 2019.
BEST AMERICAN POETRY: "To Janet in Jersey" featured in Nin Andrew's blog for BAP. April 2, 2019
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/nin-andrews/
VERSE DAILY: "Blue Heron, Walking" featured on February 22, 2019
http://www.versedaily.org/2019/blueheronwalking.shtml
CBC RADIO'S IDEAS:THE ENRIGHT FILES ON THE ROLE OF POETRY IN THE WORLD TODAY: With Billy Collins, Julie Bruck, Anne Carson and Pino Coluccio.
(broadcast on January 7, 2019). Can be streamed at:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-enright-files-on-the-role-of-poetry-in-the-world-today-1.4968487
PLUME POETRY: “Sanctuary” and “My Shame,” in print and audio.
(Issue 91, March 2019)
THE TORONTO STAR: Review of How to Avoid Huge Ships (Nov.2018)
WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS
How to Avoid Huge Ships is among Grace Cavalieri's "Best Books of October, 2018, including an excerpted poem: http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/features/october-2018-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri
QUILL & QUIRE: Review of How To Avoid Huge Ships (Oct. 2018)
https://quillandquire.com/review/how-to-avoid-huge-ships/
ALL LIT UP: On the origin of "How to Avoid Huge Ship's title (Oct. 2018)
https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2018/Under-the-Cover-How-to-Avoid-Huge-Ships#topofpostcontent
OPEN BOOK: POETS IN PROFILE: Interview (September, 2018)
ROB MCLENNAN'S BLOG: review and excerpts from "How to Avoid Huge Ships (Fall 2018)
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2018/09/julie-bruck-how-to-avoid-huge-ships.html
POETRY DAILY: "Mission Creek Landing" (Sept, 2018)
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17780
POETRY DAILY: “After Lorne” http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17677
(May, 2018)
THE MALAHAT REVIEW: Five poems (Spring 2018)
THE NEW QUARTERLY: Five poems and an essay (Winter 2018)
PLUME POETRY 6 (print anthology) “When My Mother Tracked Malaysian Air Flight 370” (April 2018)
THE WALRUS “Dominion Protection” (Sept. 2017)
BEST OF THE BEST CANADIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH 2017 ”Two Fish”
THE PURITAN Three poems: “Killer Shrimp,” “Foil’” & “Peeling the Wallpaper” 2016
PLUME POETRY 5 (print anthology) “Last Baby Girls of the 1920’s
(2017)
PLUME POETRY (online) “Her Mouth” (September 2016) and “”In January (forthcoming 2018)
THE NEW YORKER “Blue Heron, Walking” (print and audio, August 29, 2016)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/blue-heron-walking-by-julie-bruck
BEST CANADIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH 2016 “Flipped”
CANADIAN NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS, 2016
finalist in poetry (for “Flipped”, “Supreme Leader” and “Let Evening Come”, from The Rusty Toque).
PLUME POETRY 4 (print anthology)
“To Janet in Jersey” March 2016
BEST CANADIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH 2015
“Two Fish”
http://tightropebooks.com/the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2015/
PLUME POETRY, ISSUE 51
“The Good Hand”, September, 2015
http://plumepoetry.com/
THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS’ POEM-A-DAY
“To Bring The Horse Home”, Sept.14, 2015
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bring-horse-home
BEST CANADIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH 2014
“Once”
http://tightropebooks.com/best-canadian-poetry-2014/
THE RUSTY TOQUE
“Four Poems” July, 2015
http://www.therustytoque.com/poetry-julie-bruck.html
HAZLITT, PENGUIN/RANDOM HOUSE OF CANADA
“Two Fish” May 2014
http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/poetry/two-fish
NEWPOETRY.CA
“When I Oversleep” Nov, 2014
scroll down at newpoetry.ca
@CBC RADIO “CANADA WRITES”
Two new poems commissioned for the CBC’S “BloodLines” project, in conjunction with the 2013 Massey Lectures. Poems posted at:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2013/11/bloodlines-the-cold-by-julie-bruck.html
NEWS FOR MONKEY RANCH:
--Winner of The 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
--A Globe & Mail 100 Best Books of 2012.
--San Francisco LitQuake’s “Summer Reads” pick, 2012
--Finalist for the 2013 CAA Award for Poetry and
The 2013 Pat Lowther Memorial Prize
MORE POEMS ON THE WEB:
@THE NEW YORKER (www.newyorker.com); The New Yorker’s archive has six of Julie’s poems. Audio recordings of “A Marriage” and “Blue Heron, Walking” are also available for subscribers to the magazine’s iPad edition.
@VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v12n1/v12n1poetry/brucksnapshot.php
@SPEAKING OF POEMS, http://speakingofpoems.blogspot.com/2009/08/sex-next-door-its-rare-slow-as-creaking.html
SELECTED REVIEWS:
VPR: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics--Spring/Summer 2013
http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n2/v14n2prose/adkins.php
The Globe & Mail--May, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/monkey-ranch-by-julie-bruck/article4178763/
The Toronto Star--April, 2012,
http://www.thestar.com/news/books/article/1159954--restless-white-fields-by-barbara-langhorst-monkey-ranch-by-julie-bruck-reviews
A BLOGOSPHERE REVIEW:
Autumn Blossom--Nov. 25, 2012
http://www.andreasgripp.blogspot.com/2012/11/brick-and-bruck-prove-that-canlit-can.html
SELECTED INTERVIEWS:
CBC Radio “Ideas” Nov 27, 2013
In conjunction with Canada Writes and the Massey Lectures “BloodLines: project. Interview with host Paul Kennedy.
Podcast available at :http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/11/27/bloodlines/
Numero Cinq Magazine, Oct. 2013
“The Cloven Lychee Nut: An interview with Ann Ireland
http://numerocinqmagazine.com/?s=julie+bruck&searchsubmit=
CBC Sunday Edition, Nov. 25, 2012.
Interview with host Michael Enright, Podcast available
through http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition
Alemar: A Jewish Arts Digest Dec. 2012
Interview/Profile with Dinah Zeldin
Toronto Quarterly, October 2012
http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot.com/2012/10/julie-bruck-monkey-ranch-governor.html
ABOUT LA SINGERIE:
Le Libraire--Sept, 2013
http://www.lelibraire.org/entrevues/poesie-et-theatre/julie-bruck-les-singeries-de-l-etre-humain